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    PCSX2 stopped working ater most recent commit update 8 days ago - any way to downgrade or fix?

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      The Gent
      last edited by The Gent

      Pi Model or other hardware: Dell Latitude 3500 2 in 1
      RetroPie Version Used: 4.8.2
      Built From: installed on fresh Ubuntu 22.4.1
      USB Devices connected: Xbox Gamepad dongle, wireless mouse dongle
      Controller used: Xbox 360
      Error messages received: crash on launch for PCSX2
      Emulator: PCSX2
      Attachment of config files: N/A
      How to replicate the problem: try to launch any PS2 game, it will crash on launch back to Rpi menu.

      This has only been an issue since the last update/commit - is there any way to downgrade back to the previous commit from 9+ days ago? Current not working commit is: 2830334

      Thanks for any help you can provide.

      ETA:

      the log at /dev/shm/runcommand.log says: the following after trying to launch a game.

      /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh: line 4: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory
      Parameters:
      Executing: /usr/games/pcsx2 "/home/andrew/RetroPie/roms/ps2/FIFA Street.iso" --fullscreen --nogui
      /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1313: /usr/games/pcsx2: No such file or directory
      /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onend.sh: line 7: kill: (7585) - No such process
      

      Edit: a complete OS reinstall only has this as the error (no python issues):

      Parameters:
      Executing: /usr/games/pcsx2 "/home/andrew/RetroPie/roms/ps2/FIFA Street.iso" --fullscreen --nogui
      /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1313: /usr/games/pcsx2: No such file or directory
      
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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        I think the pcsx2-ppa repository has changed the package format (and arch) and pcxs2 may not be installed in /usr/games. Can you run

        dpkg -L pcsx2-unstable | grep pcsx2
        

        and post the output ?

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          rott42 @The Gent
          last edited by

          @The-Gent Try to replace the line "pcsx2 = "usr/games/pcsx2 %ROM% -- windowed"", to the line "pcsx2 = "usr/bin/pcsx2-qt %ROMS%"" in /opt/retropie/configs/ps2/emulators.cfg. PCSX2 executable is no longer in /usr/games as Mitu suggested. Worked for me.

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            The Gent @mitu
            last edited by The Gent

            @mitu thanks for your response.

            Yeah of course:

            /usr/bin/pcsx2-qt
            /usr/share/doc/pcsx2-unstable
            /usr/share/doc/pcsx2-unstable/README.Debian
            /usr/share/doc/pcsx2-unstable/changelog.gz
            /usr/share/doc/pcsx2-unstable/copyright
            /usr/share/lintian/overrides/pcsx2-unstable
            /usr/share/menu/pcsx2-unstable
            

            So it looks like it's in a different directory in some way - it will open and play from the OS, outside of the RetroPie wrapper, however.

            I can also say, I've gone through a lot of troubleshooting of trying to manually point things at other things etc and even got to the point of a complete OS reinstall - exactly the same issue.

            I've also had a play with PCSX2 more recent nightlys and they seem to have massive slowdown issues when compared to the version from approx Dec 18th if that helps you in any way whatsoever!

            Regards,

            The Gent

            Edit: actually, I just realised the fresh install does have some differences: only the two middle lines are included

            Parameters:
            Executing: /usr/games/pcsx2 "/home/andrew/RetroPie/roms/ps2/FIFA Street.iso" --fullscreen --nogui
            /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1313: /usr/games/pcsx2: No such file or directory
            

            I have no idea what happened with the python stuff - I may have done an autoremove and it got rid of them...maybe? I can't remember now.

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              The Gent @rott42
              last edited by

              @rott42 thanks for your input - unfortunately same error - the runcommand is still referencing line 1313 as "no such file or directory" and having a quick look at that .sh..I have no clue what to even look at in there as line 1313 is a load of nonsense to me.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @The Gent
                last edited by

                @The-Gent Can you post your emulators.cfg file ?

                I've tested the new pcsx2-qt command and it should work

                pcsx2 = pcsx2-qt -fullscreen -nogui %ROM%`
                

                Will probably modify the scriptmodule to take this into account.

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                  The Gent @mitu
                  last edited by The Gent

                  @mitu aw man, as simple as that, hey?

                  Yep that fixed the issue - would you still like my old config or were you just checking that it was the same?

                  Thanks so much for your speedy response, mitu, you're a wizard!

                  Regards,

                  The Gent

                  Edit: it does have issues exiting back to RetroPie menu - I assigned "ESC" on the keyboard to "Shutdown VM", but ES still thinks it's running and the game menu within PCSX2 pops up. Whether I'm doing something wrong there, I'm not sure...Used to be that ESC exited to RPi menu.

                  By default, ESC in now bringing up the PCSX2 menu.

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @The Gent
                    last edited by

                    @The-Gent said in PCSX2 stopped working ater most recent commit update 8 days ago - any way to downgrade or fix?:

                    Edit: it does have issues exiting back to RetroPie menu - I assigned "ESC" on the keyboard to "Shutdown VM", but ES still thinks it's running and the game menu within PCSX2 pops up. Whether I'm doing something wrong there, I'm not sure...Used to be that ESC exited to RPi menu.

                    Open pcsx2 with the full GUI (run pcsx2-qt) and in the Interface settings uncheck 'Confirm Shutdown'. See if that works to replicate the previous behavior.

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                      The Gent @mitu
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                      @mitu Spot on - I had to manually update the controls too (select the controller type in PCSX2), but now working completely as before - thanks so much for your help :)

                      Regards,

                      The Gent

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